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The Custom or Expand installation option allows you to selectively install specific features. You may want to perform a custom installation if you plan to use BusinessObjects Enterprise in a distributed (split) environment. For example, your existing web application server resides on a different computer than the one hosting the BusinessObjects Enterprise core components.

You customize the installation in the setup program Features screen.

The Features screen contains a tree of features divided into the following top-level features:

Client Components
Web Tier Components
Server Components
Database Access
Export Support
Samples
Help Files

The markers in the tree indicate whether or not the feature and its subfeatures will be installed:

[X] means that the feature and all its subfeatures will be installed.
[~] means that the feature and some of its subfeatures will be installed.
[ ] means the feature will not be installed.
To select a feature or subfeature, select its corresponding marker and type X.

Client Components

This feature contains the Developer Components which has two subfeatures:

BusinessObjects Enterprise Java SDK: The development kit for Java applications.
BusinessObjects Enterprise Web Services SDK: The development kit for web services.

Web Tier Components

This feature contains the following subfeatures:

BI Platform Web Components:: Includes all components used to run BusinessObjects Enterprise applications including the CMC, InfoView, and Dashboard and Analytics.
BusinessObjects Enterprise Web Services: A component of BusinessObjects Enterprise built for developers. It is composed of an implementation of web services that can be deployed with BusinessObjects Enterprise.
Tomcat: If you do not have an existing web application server, you can choose to install Apache Tomcat 5.5.

Server Components

For a detailed explanation of what the listed servers do, see the BusinessObjects Enterprise Architecture chapter of the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator’s Guide. Server Components contains the following subfeatures:

CMS
Contains the following subfeatures:
- Auditor
- MySQL
Event Server
Input File Repository Server
Output File Repository Server
Crystal Reports Cache Server
Crystal Reports Processing Server
Publication Job Server
Report Application Server
Crystal Reports Job Server
Destination Job Server
List of Values Job Server
Desktop Intelligence Job Server
Program Job Server
Adaptive Job Server
Adaptive Processing Server
Web Intelligence Report Server
Desktop Intelligence Servers
Dashboards and Analytics Servers
Auditing Reports and Universes
Multi-Dimensional Analysis Services Server

Database Access

This feature installs the necessary drivers and files to provide access to a broad range of data sources. It contains the following subfeatures:

Data Federator
MySQL
Generic ODBC, JDBC
Salesfore.com Driver
NETEZZA
ALL IBM Database Drivers contains the following subfeatures:
- IBM DB2
- Informix
Progress OpenEdge
Oracle
Sybase
NCR Teradata
HP Neoview (for Linux only)

Export Support

This feature contains drivers and files to enable export to a variety of industry standard file formats. It includes the following subfeatures:

Character Separated
Disk File
Rich Text Format
Word for Windows
Acrobat PDF
Text
Excel Format
Crystal Reports
XML Format
Legacy XML Format

Note: Reports and universes can only be generated from a CA Technologies product's database. A CA Technologies product must configure the data source for the usage of that specific product. See your CA Technologies product documentation for more information.

Samples

Included are samples for Crystal Reports, a BIAR file that includes Web Intelligence reports as well as the universe used to create these reports.

Sample reports are located in the Report Samples folder. Only English samples are installed.

Help Files

Select the Help files feature to install the HTML help for the products you are installing including the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator’s Guide and the BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide.